At the beginning of March, at the beginning of the Han Operation, the construction of the highway from Xi'an to Yulin and from Yulin to Ordos began at the same time, and by the beginning of April, the Ming army had already conquered Ordos, and the road from Yulin was repaired to the original border. At this time, He Tengjiao led a new division of the Guards Army to come here and began to assist in building the road.

This was drawn from the soldiers who originally guarded Shanhaiguan in western Liaoning, and after being retrained in Gongji City, they were organized into four new divisions. He Tengjiao was selected to study in the lecture hall during the reform of the Beijing Shiwei Institute, and was appointed as the division commander after graduation. In addition to bringing a division to build roads, he also brought more than 5,000 Houjin people. Under the guidance of the Ministry of Agriculture, these Houjin people first carried out the campaign to reclaim and level fields, and then carried out labor reform in the construction of roads and railways. Most of the well-behaved Houjin have been released, but a large number of these released Houjin have expressed their unwillingness to return to the deep mountains and forests of Hetuara as hunters, and there is no problem with Daming Farm or road construction.

Yue Tuo is also helpless about this situation, but he also found in the construction process of the mountain and wood line that the Ming court did not specifically target the Jurchens, at most some Ming people do not like the Jurchens, and sometimes make it a little difficult, Yue Tuo can also understand in his heart that compared to Nurhachi's behavior of slaughtering villages and cities at every turn, the Ming people are indeed much stronger. So he also believed that these people who were going to enter the Liaodong farm would not be abused, so he returned to Hetuara with some of them.

Most of the Houjin people who were unwilling to return to Hetuara officially joined the Ming Dynasty, they knew that the Ming people who built the road were paid, so after becoming the Ming people, they settled their families on the land assigned to them by the imperial court, and then withdrew their wages for a few months in advance, 3 When the repair was almost done, they came to the Xiyu Highway and the Yu'e Highway to work.

The reason why Daming is relieved to let them enter Shaanxi is because the conditions for joining Daming are very strict. First of all, the surname must be changed, and the single surname of the Han nationality must be used, such as Tong Jia's surname Tong, Guarjia's surname Guan, and Ma Jia's surname Ma...... Next, the braids must be cut. If you can do these two things, and perform well in the process of labor reform, you can join Daming.

There are more than 10,000 Houjin people who joined the Ming Dynasty, plus their families have a total of 40,000 people, and the Ming Dynasty scattered them in various farms in Liaodong, just the farm is poor, but these people are not good at farm work, and they are greedy for high income when building roads, so most of them put their families on the farm, do some work that does not require much technology, and they run out to make money.

Now road repair has become a very popular job, in the earliest days the wage of skilled workers was 300 wen a day, and later the Ministry of Railways and the Highway Commission adjusted, technical workers are 300 wen a day, skilled workers are 200 wen a day, and unskilled workers are 100 wen a day. In this way, if a skilled worker has something to do for a month, he can get 12 yuan, and after deducting 1 yuan for food and lodging, he can get 11 yuan, while a non-skilled worker will become a skilled worker after a three-month internship period. In this way, you can get more than 100 yuan a year, which is more than 60 taels of silver, which is much more than farming.

Although the imperial court stipulates that the naturalized people who have just joined the Ming Dynasty can only get eighty percent of the salary of the Ming people for five years, this is already a rare wealth for the Houjin people, not to mention that they can eat enough every day, and they can also eat meat every three days. When the army was raised to rebel, it was the Niu Lu in the tribe who really wanted to open up and eat white noodles, but he couldn't do it.

The G3 high-grade highway is from Beijing to Xi'an, passing through Baoding, Shimen, Handan, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, although the distance is long, the road conditions are complicated, but with the help of explosives, the highway committee is well organized, and finally it took more than two years to finally build this high-grade highway. Bridges were built over the small river in the middle, but there was no way to build bridges over the Yellow River, so ferries could only be used to transport the two banks.

Zhu Youxiao has ordered the research institute to experiment with steel and cement to make bridges, and the royal construction team has now changed its name to the Daming Royal Road and Bridge Bureau, and under the guidance of the research institute, the first steel and cement bridge in Daming was built on the Yongding River. The bridge is 245 steps long and connects the city of Beijing with Jiafu Temple (i.e., Tanzhe Temple).

The institute has benefited a lot from the construction of this bridge and intends to continue to build bridges in various places, continue to accumulate experience, and finally be able to build bridges of more than 1,000 steps, so that bridges can be built over the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

The Beijing Normal University Hall Research Institute has explored large-scale iron ore mines in Anshan, Liaodong, Pingxingguan, Shanxi, Lanxian, Wutaishan, Shanxi, Handan, Hebei, Huanggang, Huguang, Ji'an, Jiangxi, Luoyang, Shaanxi, and Panzhihua, Sichuan.

The Ordnance Bureau adopted a new method for setting up iron and steel factories outside the Beijing Division, and the Ordnance Bureau was responsible for producing technology and providing technological updates, accounting for 30% of the shares. The other 70 percent shall be held by businessmen from all over the country after negotiation, but a single company shall not hold more than 30 percent of the shares.

In this way, all management is no longer the worry of the Ordnance Bureau, which is responsible for purchasing the better quality pig iron and all the steel, and the rest of the iron is sold by the steel mill itself. This model was proposed by Zhu Youxiao, who has always believed that a sentence in his previous life is very correct: property cannot be publicly owned, and power cannot be privately owned. And the state-owned enterprises that were in a mess of shit in the management of his previous life also made him understand that except for a very small number of resources that must be controlled by the state, other aspects can actually be placed in the private sector to let them thrive.

Of course, steel involves the manufacture of weapons, so supervision is still necessary, by the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Railways, the East Factory, Jinyi Wei and the Taxation Department jointly set up a steel administration, specifically to manage the tax, sales, use and other aspects of the steel produced by the steel plant. to ensure that steel does not flow into places where the imperial court does not want to see it flow.

Fang Yizhi and Zhu Zhiyu built a steamboat that could reach a speed of one hour and twenty-four miles, of course, after using the propeller. Fang Yizhi believes that efforts can only be made to strengthen the power efficiency of the steam engine now, and it is impossible to increase the speed in a short period of time. He didn't want to waste any more time on ship research, so Zhu Zhiyu became the director of the Hydro Transport Bureau. He said to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, the speed of a ship of twenty-four miles can only be achieved without loading, and the students only want to specialize in the study of ships, hoping to develop a ship that can reach thirty miles and forty miles after loading, and also want to study the ship that His Majesty said is ten thousand and one hundred thousand materials." ”